Your language is a reflection of how you see yourself. (Freedom Friday)

Personal musings on igniting your life from the inside out and the top down.

In the beginning there was the word. The word distinguishes us from other animals. It allows us not only to communicate danger (animals are able to do this too), but language allows us to communicate our deepest desires. It allows us to write book and emails. Language allows us to talk on TV and the phone, reaching people around the world.

Language also reflects how we view ourselves. Whether we love or hate ourselves is revealed in the use of a single word, a turn of phrase.

The problem is we are largely asleep to the language we use.

We talk and talk, but rarely listen to what we say.

“I can never do that, there are others more qualified.”

“I can’t go to that party, my ex will be there and make me feel uncomfortable.”

“Why did you make me mad?”

Each statement reflects the pain of not feeling good enough, of rejection and being out of control, respectively.

Words not only reflect our inner self, they are the mortar to our beliefs. Each word of fear and pain reinforces the feeling.